Larkslane, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Mousie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41817. It stands on Short Fork. The Survey maps it on the Handshoe quadrangle.

Larkslane within Knott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1890 USGS Whitesburg quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Whitesburg quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1912 USGS Hindman quadrangle1:48000
1915 USGS Hindman quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1954 USGS Handshoe quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Handshoe quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

248 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 248 fires within 5 miles of Larkslane between 1997 and 2020, burning about 14,357 acres in total. None started naturally. 53 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	97
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	69
Arson/incendiarism	53
Recreation and ceremony	18
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Smoking	4
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	75 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 September 2007	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
26 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 2008	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
15 September 1999	Smoking	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Knott County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Mousie	2.3 miles	17
Garner	3.0 miles	16
Soft Shell	3.4 miles	17
Pippa Passes	3.5 miles	17
Hollybush	3.6 miles	17
Raven	4.2 miles	17
Bolyn	4.3 miles	17
Porter (historical)	4.4 miles	17

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122595950

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508428. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.